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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wingletang Down - Cairn in England in Isles of Scilly

Submitted by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 20 July 2004  Page Views: 11832

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wingletang Down
Country: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: St Agnes Island  Nearest Village: Higher Town
Map Ref: SV883075
Latitude: 49.886366N  Longitude: 6.340973W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Wingletang Down
Wingletang Down submitted by PAB : One of many interesting 'structures' on Wingletang Down. Photo, June 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Forty-three cairns have been found in the heather of this exposed moorland. Some are retained by kerbs of granite boulders. Field walls to the north-east connect some of the cairns.

The Devil's Punchbowl is a natural rock sculpture on Wingletang Down. This area is fully exposed to the Atlantic and the hard granite has been cut into fantastic shapes by wind and water. The Cornish antiquarian, William Borlase, saw the weird shapes, cup marks and hollows as being "Druidic". All are natural and Borlase's "Druids' chalices and bowls" are not cup and ring marks.
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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, This time it's a Kerb Cairn built next to an outcrop at SV886077 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wingletang Down submitted by lucasn : The Devil's Punch Bowl on Wingletang Down (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wingletang Down submitted by Thorgrim : Difficult to see under the heather and gorse, but there are 43 cairns in the Wingletang Cairn Cemetery on the island of St Agnes. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wingletang Down submitted by Thorgrim : Wingletang Down Cairn Cemetery. There are 43 cairns on this cliff-top moor. Some survive as low mounds and others have kerbs of granite boulders. Those to the north-east are connected by field walls (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, The ruined Chambered Cairn at SV886078 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A ruined Chambered Cairn at SV886078

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A ruined Chambered Cairn at SV886078, Showing some Kerbstones and the ruined chamber

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Yet another Cairn built against an outcrop at SV886078

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A wide curving bank near an outcrop (again) at SV887077

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Yet another cairn built next to an outcrop, SV885077

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Another angle of the Kerb Cairn built next to an outcrop at SV886077

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Yet another Cairn built against an outcrop at SV886076, This building your cairns against outcrops was really "a big thing" here on the isles of Scilly

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A Cairn built around an outcrop at SV886076

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Cairn at SV885075

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Cairn at SV881073

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Another Scilly Cairn built against an outcrop at SV882073

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Cairn at SV881073

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A massive stone at SV883072

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, My eye kept been drawn even more to this big circular mark towards the top of this large outcrop at SV882071, There's a part of me that believes that when it was intact it was once a crude map of Scilly, Because before it was flooded the whole area would have been very circular, The more i looked and certainly from a distance it looked very very man made though!

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, My eye kept been drawn to these 3 big very worn cupmarks on the reddish area on this large outcrop at SV882071

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, These natural tooth like stones have something (A cairn or a hut) next to them (to the tooth like stones left) at SV883072

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, Outcrop at SV883072

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A possible ruined Chambered Cairn at SV882072, The large stone been the capstone and next to it to the right is a possible chamber sidestone

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Wingletang Down submitted by Bladup : Wingletang Down, A possible ruined Chambered Cairn at SV882072, The large stone been the capstone

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